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then it sometimes pays. my flowers have been a great delight to us both. they are so beautiful. Kate is very generous + says she means to come up + see me. but does not have a great deal of time. so many kids. I dont see how her little nest holds so many. they need a larger home. did you know that John Rhodes was married before? it was his former children who took possession of his property + erected a monument for them in the cemetery. a family by the name of Brown is living there now. thats the way things change from time to time. I am wondering who will come into the vacant house below us they have been fixing it up as it is sadly in need of it is in the Cooperative bank I remember it was about a year ago now that Ralph went down from here to look at it, in order to see if the water had been turned off. I dont hear from Maude so she must be getting along should think the house would be something to heat this winter. her heater gave out last winter. the same ailed it as ours. a round boiler in a square heater, that was they way they did when they were put in after they made them over into oil heating plants + so they were never a success, so Lothrop told us. well I guess ours works fine these days + are less expensive to run. we dont have to bother to go down cellar to punch it up any more. before we were in danger of blowing up, lucky we wernt awair[[weren't aware]] of it. well as the world goes on we dont know when we are safe. crime + fire, auto accidents one hates to read so much about. we are living in a queer age
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